“Goff and Swontek have already met with each other 15 times”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
Both tennis players are only at the beginning of their quaries, but are already in the top 3. In their confrontation, Swontek was unilaterally dominated by Swontek, but Hoff, winning the last three matches in the five -fold champion of a large helmet tournaments, seems to have become confident.
Although Goff and Swenttek a little over twenty, they have already met 15 times, and their rivalry began in the courts in 2021. The American won only four of these matches, but after the semi -finals of the soil Master in Madrid, in which Goff won the striking victory – 6: 1, 6: 1, the situation can change dramatically.
Given how many matches have already happened, Goff believes that their rivalry can set a record for the number of personal meetings in tennis history.
“I cannot believe that Iga and I have already played each other 15 times. I am 21, and she is 23, we are both very young and we have, at least ten years in this sport, ”Goff told journalists in Madrid. – “It seems to me that we can eventually set a record for the number of matches among themselves in tennis history.”
However, Goff and Swontek have to go a long way to break the record by the number of personal meetings in the open era.
This record belongs to Chris Evert and Martini Naviatilov, who played each other 80 times from 1973 to 1988, with Navratillova won 43 of these matches.
The famous nursing confrontation between Serena and Vinus Williams has 31 matches from 1998 to 2020, account 19:12 in favor of Serena.
